Thought Disorders

Question 1

what is circumstantiality?

Answer 1

• inability to answer a question without giving excessive, unnecessary detail
• person does eventually get to the point

Question 2

what is tangentiality?

Answer 2

wandering from a topic without returning to it

Question 3

what are neologisms?

Answer 3

new word formations, which might include the combining of two words

Question 4

what are clang associations?

Answer 4

ideas are related to each other only by the fact that they sound similar or rhyme

Question 5

what is word salad?

Answer 5

completely incoherent speech where real words are strung together into nonsense sentences

Question 6

what is knights move thinking?

Answer 6

• severe type of loosening of associations, where there are unexpected and illogical leaps form one idea to another
• feature of schizophrenia

Question 7

what is flight of ideas?

Answer 7

• feature of mania
• leaps from one topic to another but with discernible links between them

Question 8

what is perseveration?

Answer 8

repetition of ideas or words despite an attempt to change the topic

Question 9

what is echolalia?

Answer 9

repetition of someone else’s speech, including the question that was asked

Question 10

how can you differentiate between knight’s move and flight of ideas?

Answer 10

knights move = illogical leaps from one idea to another
flight of ideas = discernible links between ideas